Dear colleagues,

You and your colleagues may be interested in attending or presenting at the Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>, which is the world's largest and leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference.  For those interested in presenting at the conference, abstracts are currently being accepted for presentation, and the final abstract deadline is September 30.  Please also feel free to forward this announcement to others who may be interested in attending or presenting.  The registration rate increases after September.
Global Health & Innovation Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight, 11th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 12 - Sunday, April 13, 2014

"A Meeting of Minds"--CNN

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference.  This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  Register during September to secure the lowest registration rate.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>

Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit an abstract<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/abstracts> for consideration.

The conference's confirmed speakers to date include:
Keynote Addresses

  *   Seth Godin, Blogger, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com
  *   Gary Hirshberg, Co-Founder and CEO, Stonyfield Farms
  *   Michael Moss, Investigative Reporter, New York Times
  *   Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute, Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
  *   Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University

The 300 speakers include:

*        "From Visibility to Transformation: Global Mental Health and the Post-2015 Agenda," Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director, Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine; Senior Director for Psychiatric Services, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

*        "Writing for Medical and Global Health Journals: An Insider's View ," Jocalyn Clark, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine

*        "The Inventor's Pathway: How Technology Ideas Turn into Products and Businesses that Improve Lives," Carol Dahl, PhD, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation

*        "Challenges of Scaling Entrepreneurial Impact," Greg Dees, Rubenstein Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship, Initiative on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Duke University

*        "The NTDs, Girls and Women, and Blue Marble Health," Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Professor in Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital; President, Sabin Vaccine Institute; Director, Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development; Baker Institute Fellow in Disease and Poverty, Rice University

*        "Nutrition and the Politics of Food," Michael Jacobson, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest

*         "Private Primary Health Chains: Sharing Learnings Across Geographies," Tricia Morente, Strategic Advisor, LifeSpring Hospitals
Complete conference details, including the full list of speakers, can be seen on the 2014 Global Health & Innovation Conference website.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/>

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